Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...makes any such claims in Good Morning Blues. On the page as in life, he is a modest man, given to understatement and sly humor, deft in turning the spotlight on others. He fondly evokes such colleagues as Thomas ("Fats") Waller and Lester Young, and he has a nice eye for after-hours vignettes. With the artful help of Collaborator Albert Murray (Stomping the Blues), he turns his early memories into a historically valuable account of the itinerant, raffish life of the black musician in the '20s and '30s. The Jim Crow working conditions provoke little bitterness. All he wanted...
...million customers of Saks Fifth Avenue, Neiman-Marcus and about a dozen other department-store chains are now getting more than bad news in their monthly bills. Stuffed in with the statements are paper advertising inserts that contain samples of eye shadow. By brushing a fingertip across a colored strip, a woman can try out this season's shades from Charles of the Ritz, Yves Saint Laurent and Christian Dior...
Perfume manufacturers have successfully promoted new scents by mailing out fragrance strips or inserting them in magazines, and new technology is making it possible for cosmetics producers to use the same advertising technique. Because of a special manufacturing process, the eye-shadow powder sticks to the paper but easily rubs off onto the finger...
Proponents argued that the Senate was only postponing the inevitable. Minority Leader Robert Byrd, once an opponent of the camera's eye, cited more pragmatic reasons in its favor: "The Senate is fast becoming the invisible half of Congress. We cannot hold our own with the White House and the House of Representatives when it comes to news coverage of the important issues...
...allow the Marcos's and Duvalier's of the world to finish off their sad, little, miserable lives in relative comfort. If that's the price we have to pay so as not to discourage other dictators from one day booking one-way pasage on an Air Force red-eye...